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| To call Mickey Grant's films "documentaries" is to give them very short shrift, indeed. The term suggest dull, plodding fare which one is more likely to view under duress (say, as a class assignment) rather than by choice. Perhaps it's simply because the American film vocabulary lacks the proper terms that extraordinary works such as these get pigeonholed in such an unappealing niche. | |||
| The French have a much better word for it: cinema verite, a raw, gritty style in which art's imitation of life blurs the line between fact and fiction, between harsh reality and human drama. Grant's works are deceptive on the surface and always much richer and more complex than they seem at first glance. Grant draws on his knowledge of other peoples and cultures (he is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and Dutch) to give us a vision of life that transcends our all-too-often provincial outlooks; sometimes the results are unsettling, sometimes uplifting, but they are always rewarding. | |||
| Read an Artist's Statement by Mickey Grant. | |||
| Review Mickey's capsule resume`. | |||
| Go to Gallery to read about Mickey's films. |
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